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Living entanglements and the ecological thought in the works of Paul Kingsnorth, Tom McCarthy, and Ali Smith
… contemporary British novelists—Paul Kingsnorth, Tom McCarthy, and Ali Smith—deal with the representational and ethical challenges of writing about nature and climate change within the Anthropocene. The question of how to live and write now is a prominent thread in all their works, which show, in …
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The centre cannot hold: a translation of the cognitive nonconscious
… Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi, Sarah Rose Etter, Tom McCarthy, Ian McEwan, Ben Lerner, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith, Edward St. Aubyn, Patricia Lockwood, Christine Smallwood, Richard Owain Roberts, and Jon McGregor. What connects the work of these authors is the rejection of consciousness as a …
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Literature's Blind Spot: Event and Remainder in Tom McCarthy's Fiction
Tom McCarthy writes against a mode of humanist realism that dominates contemporary fiction, which he calls “as laden with artifice as any other literary convention” (Typewriters 59). He rejects realism's claim to “objectively reflect, capture or report on historical events and mental activity” …
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Exile, homecoming, and the remembered journey: towards a new writing of perspective, place and event
… in particular the authors W. G. Sebald, Tom McCarthy, Ali Smith, David Shields, Deborah Levy and Gabriel Josipovici. In this study I have considered a range of authors who I believe are particularly illuminating in their exploration of new emerging representations of subjectivity within …
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Feedback Exhaust: Money and the Novel at the End of the Contemporary
<p>In the contemporary context of global financialization, the distance between the categories of money and fiction has been theorized as narrowing. This dissertation uses a Marxist analytic to argue that financialized money and fiction, as two modes of accounting, should be approached as competing …